Rain Attenuation 0f Centimeter, Millimeter and Submillimeter Radio Waves

Author(s):  
Matsuo Sekine ◽  
Goran Lind
1969 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. P. Naumov ◽  
V. S. Stankevich

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-150
Author(s):  
Mohanad Abdulhamid ◽  
Waswa Wekesa

Abstract Rain as a weather phenomenon is one of the things that greatly affects propagation of radio waves. Above 10 GHz, the attenuation brought about by the interaction of the propagating waves and the rain droplets becomes significant for both terrestrial radio links and satellite links. For this reason, rain attenuation models have been developed to aid in planning purposes for network implementation. The models use statistics to predict the attenuation that is caused by specific amount of rain and also the type of rain. This means that different regions will have different levels of attenuation due to the fact that they experience different types and amount of rain. A couple of models exist including the ITU-R, Moupfouma model, Crane attenuation model and other localized models depending on the geographical area that research data collection and extensive analysis has been conducted on and a comprehensive set of values and factors have been determined that can aid in estimation of attenuation due to rain. This paper seeks to provide a viable means by which a transmission engineer can be able to know the attenuation per kilometer due to the various models. This is achieved by designing a software calculator that provides the output of the attenuation per kilometer (dB/Km) while taking an input of rain rate for the different models available. The calculator is based on visual basic platform and works with forms.


2012 ◽  
Vol 195-196 ◽  
pp. 212-216
Author(s):  
Ai Hua Wang ◽  
Hai Min Zhang

This paper firstly reviews the current state of knowledge on the effects from rain when radio waves through the atmosphere briefly. Then we describes some work being carried out by ITU to characterize rainfall attenuation in particular, and put forward an optimized model in which we lead in area overlap factor and the height relationship between base station and mobile station, to simplify the ITU model , the simulation was given by MATLAB. Finally we got results confirming the veracity of the optimized model.


1984 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-152
Author(s):  
E V Sisakyan ◽  
Aleksandr B Shvartsburg ◽  
G N Chimakadze

2018 ◽  
pp. 2-8
Author(s):  
Bernard Adjei-Frimpong ◽  
László Csurgai-Horváth

The European Space Agency launched a communication satellite called Alphasat in 2013, with two experimental beacons to carry out a scientific experiment by measurement at frequencies of 19.7 GHz and 39.4 GHz respectively. Propagation through the atmosphere at these frequencies is affected by the resence of atmospheric gases and other particles like water vapour, rain and ice drops. Rain attenuation is the most significant parameter which degrades the performance of the links by absorbing and scattering radio waves that can be determined as the measured received signal power’s deviation from the nominal, non-attenuated level. Rainfall statistical data are also measured and recorded by the propagation terminals to provide additional information to apply prediction methods that require minutes of integration time rain intensity.


1994 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 21-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. B. Gelfreikh

AbstractA review of methods of measuring magnetic fields in the solar corona using spectral-polarization observations at microwaves with high spatial resolution is presented. The methods are based on the theory of thermal bremsstrahlung, thermal cyclotron emission, propagation of radio waves in quasi-transverse magnetic field and Faraday rotation of the plane of polarization. The most explicit program of measurements of magnetic fields in the atmosphere of solar active regions has been carried out using radio observations performed on the large reflector radio telescope of the Russian Academy of Sciences — RATAN-600. This proved possible due to good wavelength coverage, multichannel spectrographs observations and high sensitivity to polarization of the instrument. Besides direct measurements of the strength of the magnetic fields in some cases the peculiar parameters of radio sources, such as very steep spectra and high brightness temperatures provide some information on a very complicated local structure of the coronal magnetic field. Of special interest are the results found from combined RATAN-600 and large antennas of aperture synthesis (VLA and WSRT), the latter giving more detailed information on twodimensional structure of radio sources. The bulk of the data obtained allows us to investigate themagnetospheresof the solar active regions as the space in the solar corona where the structures and physical processes are controlled both by the photospheric/underphotospheric currents and surrounding “quiet” corona.


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